Sarah is an aspiring doctor who just had the experience of a lifetime here at Explo. The hands-on, visual, learning opportunites that Explo provides are helping this bright student retain more information than she thought she could.
Today, I dissected a pig! It was really fun and it was cool! You hear about all the structures of the human body, and we learn about it in school, but we never get to actually see it. It was very interesting seeing the actual pig and its organs and intestines. I liked getting to open up the stomach and feeling all the textures of all the structures. In Explo Ortho, we dissected a heart, a brain, and a chicken wing, but it was cool getting to see the whole animal.
I want to be a neonatologist or a pediatric endocrinologist when I grow up. I have a hormone issue that runs in my family, so I’ve been to a lot of endocrinologists. It seems really cool and I want to do it. I would love to help kids like me deal with that. I would want to be a neonatologist to help babies.
It’s really fun getting to explore all these things at Explo. I’ve been to different programs before and when I would get home, I didn’t feel like I remembered much by the end. But now I feel like I’m retaining so much of what I’m learning. I think it’s because everything is so hands-on. I’m a visual learner and the instructors are really good at demonstrating everything visually instead of reading it from a textbook. This is definitely an experience that I’ll always remember.
Ally Marcino